Our Trustees

is the Chair of Trustees for The Transformation Trust. He is also a non-executive director of the Economist and is Chairman and board member of numerous organisations and universities.

David was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Pennyslvania. He received his knighthood for services to industry, the arts and charity.

Philip Graf CBE

is Chairman of CfBT Education Trust, a leading education consultancy, and an associate of Praesta Partners LLP. He is also Vice Chairman of Crisis. He has worked extensively in various sectors, including Culture, Media and Sport, Finance, and Journalism.

Philip graduated with a degree in Law from Cambridge University.

Fiona Ryland

became a Trustee in May 2015. After holding many operational roles at various retail companies, Fiona joined Compass and became HR Director for Compass Group UK & Ireland in February 2013. A passionate people person, Fiona thrives on the interaction between colleagues and clients and the personal growth and development of those she meets.

Fiona was educated at Bath University.

Luke Bradley-Jones

serves as Sky UK's Chief Marketing Officer and is responsible for brand strategy, product marketing, and customer engagement across all TV, broadband and mobile products. He also previously worked at BBC Worldwide as Head of Strategy and then Managing Director, and at media consultancy Spectrum Strategy Consultants.

Mike Green

is the Chief Operating Officer of the Department for Education and Director General of the Operations Directorate. He joined DfE in 2012.

Mike is a member of the Department for Education board, audit and risk committee, implementation committee and the department’s leadership team.

Mike is a graduate of the Major Projects Leadership Academy (MPLA) at Saïd Business School, Oxford University and is Senior Responsible Officer for two of the department’s major programmes.

Before joining the Civil Service, Mike was a civil engineer and spent his career in the private sector working for companies such as Boots.

Baroness Margaret Sharp

is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords and Vice-Chair of the All-Party Group for Skills. She stood four times in Parliamentary elections and joined the bench in the House of Lords in 1998, taking front bench position on education in 2000. Margaret is a governor of two schools in Guildford, an honorary fellow of Birkbeck College and City and Guilds Institute.

Margaret studied Economics at Cambridge University at Newham College, where she is now an associate fellow. She also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex and is a visiting fellow of SPRU there.

Sir David Carter

became National Schools Commissioner in 2016, leading a team that oversees 6500 academies in England and intervenes when standards fall. He was previously CEO of a multi academy trust in Bristol, and writes a monthly column for the Times Education Supplement.

The product of a comprehensive school in South Wales, David was the first member of his family to go to university and continues to make a difference to the lives of those with similar experiences.

Josh Krichefski

is currently CEO of MediaCom, the UK's largest and most successful media and communications agency. He is responsible for developing the agency's strategic business plan each year and ensuring it is delivered. In 2013 Josh conceived and executed a full company re-structure which has significantly benefitted the agency in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency.

Julia Tyler

became a Trustee of the Transformation Trust in March 2017. She began work as a consultant for Coopers&Lybrand, led the operations at the Open University Business School and worked in the polytechnic sector. She was Executive Vice President of GMAC, a US based organisation, before leading degree programmes at London Business School until 2016, where she developed and delivered the strategic plan for degree education and generated 60% of fee revenue.

Julia is a graduate of Oxford and London Universities.

Ian Cleland

has dedicated his career to helping students and adults fulfil their potential. He has worked extensively in the education sector, notably moving the performance of a local authority's schools from 35th to 5th in the metropolitan league tables.

In 2013 Ian set up Academy Transformation Trust, an academy sponsor where he is Chief Executive.

Lord Newby

has been an adviser to The Transformation Trust since its inception in May 2009 and has recently been re-elected as a Trustee.

Lord Newby is leader of the Lib Dem Group in the House of Lords, and has previously worked for the Lib Dems as Treasury Spokesperson, Government Deputy Chief Whip and Chief Whip. He has also worked extensively in consultancy and communications.

Rachel Wolf

founded New Schools network in 2009 and served as director until 2013. She was previously an educational policy adviser to Michael Gove. She now works in New York and remains a Trustee of New Schools Network.